Digital Democracy, created at Cal Poly and operated in partnership with the nonprofit newsroom CalMatters, has earned an Emmy Award for political reporting by harnessing artificial intelligence to reveal hidden patterns in state government. The award, presented by the Northern California chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, recognized a CBS-TV and CalMatters investigation powered by Digital Democracy. The broadcast, “Using new AI, grieving moms discover California lawmakers killed popular fentanyl bill by *not* voting,” revealed how legislators sideline bills by simply declining to vote. The story followed CalMatters’ own reporting, “Power is never having to say ‘no,’” co-authored by CBS correspondent Julie Watts and CalMatters reporter Ryan Sabalow.
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